Rutgers football player arrested for alleged murder conspiracy

WABC-TV(NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.) — A Rutgers University football player was arrested and charged on Tuesday in connection to a murder plot, police said.

Izaia Bullock, a junior linebacker, was accused of initiating a plan to kill “the family members of an acquaintance,” according to the Middlesex County prosecutor’s office.

The office did not release any details about the alleged plot, but it said the “intended victims” weren’t affiliated with the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based university.

Bullock, 22, was arrested after an investigation by the Rutgers University Police Department and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office determined he initiated the plot on Oct. 29,